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Time is money and UpTempo can save you time! Accelerate your systems and see the difference... Compelling Value: Time is Money. This phrase drives business throughout the world, but the phrase rings true for small to large enterprises and to anyone working on computer systems in today's fast paced world. Growing customer bases, constant e-mail communications, expanding on-line real-time transactions, and larger and more complex databases, all increase the burden on data centers, IT staffs and individual users. Modern applications send wave after wave of transactions and inquiries needing data access into burdened platforms and disk systems. Overcoming the I/O Speed Barrier - Is your disk light blinking? Unleash Your Systems Performance with DataCore UpTempo Okay, here's a simple trivia question: What slows your computer's performance? (No, not including you) The answer, of course, is your disk drive. Think about it: Your disk drive spins around like a miniature washing machine and has little robot arms that jerk back and forth across a round platter to read and write data your applications require to do their jobs. This is a slow, mechanical process that takes forever in comparison to the electronic speed of your system's memory and bus access. Despite its lack of speed, your disks are a critical component of your system. It houses your data, contains the software programs you use and maintains the information you need. Also, Windows uses your disk as a place to manage virtual memory. Therefore, disk access is on the critical path of several operating system functions, so anything you can do to speed disk access results in real-life system performance improvements. But how can you accelerate disk access? You certainly can't make the disk spin quicker or the arms move faster. However, you could use a time-proven method to speed your disk access: caching combined with intelligent software. If you did it right you could simply carve out chunks of the computer's memory and use them like incredibly fast disks, then add the "smarts" to stage I/O efficiently and keep copies of frequently accessed information available in your RAM memory, where you can access it at electronic speed that is orders of magnitude faster than mechanical speed. This is what DataCore's UpTempo Software does for you. UpTempo Intelligent Software Learns as You Work to Optimize Your Workloads DataCore draws on the technology and experience that goes into building modern high end disk storage subsystems costing millions, UpTempo brings the benefits of advanced memory based caching and predictive workflow sensitive algorithms to become accessible to a whole new class of systems - Windows-based systems. UpTempo uses sophisticated disk caching combined with intelligent software. Chunks of your computer's RAM memory are used to buffer reads and writes to your hard disk. UpTempo also includes predictive intelligence, so it can prefetch or read more of the disk than your program asks for and the workflow sensitive algorithms can adjust what's kept in cache based on the workloads and traffic patterns. This scalability and intelligent design means information will already be in memory when your program is ready to access it. Servers need UpTempo: Multiple Users, Many Applications, Many Disks... Most servers are bottlenecked by I/O and the more tasks and the more disks you have running the more you can gain from UpTempo. Servers are faced with larger loads of activity and greater diversity in the types of tasks that need to be accomplished. They are computers designed for the many (whether serving a single application or many different applications to many users). Therefore, there are many more opportunities for UpTempo optimizations. UpTempo improves single user and single disk systems but it shines brighter in larger multi-user, multi-disk environments. With more traffic there is more congestion and therefore more opportunity for UpTempo to break the bottlenecks and accelerate the I/O. You might not be bottlenecked on I/O during a particular instance of time - but due to changing workloads and usage rates - you likely will be later. There are a lot more opportunities to be efficient and overcome bottlenecks when UpTempo works across multiple users or a large number of disks. The greater the load the better UpTempo performs. UpTempo your server; UpTempo all your disks. The Solution: Use DataCore's UpTempo to boost Disk I/O performance When disk I/O bottlenecks limit system performance, other system resources wait idly by. By putting these resources to work, system performance is improved. UpTempo's powerful disk cache helps optimize system resource utilization by applying processor and memory resources to the I/O bottleneck problem. The UpTempo block-level cache assesses your workload I/O patterns and optimizes the flow of I/O traffic between memory and disk locations. Inserted into the path of the I/O subsystem, it learns to cache the most active read/write disk I/O. With UpTempo enabled, the cache technology reduces context switching, enhances server response and results in a much more satisfying and productive user experience. Is your disk light blinking? Try UpTempo Now! 
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